pawn
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For the three months ended March 31, Ezcorp’s overall pawn loans surged 33% to a record high of $349 million from a year ago, with U.S. loans up 16%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“In those three months, pawn loan demand is usually depressed, because that’s when people start getting tax refunds,” said Kyle Joseph, an analyst at financial services firm Stephens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“I cringed at being a sacrificial pawn in their game of relationship chess,” Davis writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
They may turn to pawn transactions and other informal borrowing arrangements.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
Fischer, without hesitation, tapped Spassky’s right hand—and Spassky opened it to reveal the black pawn.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
He’d always say I was too aggressive with my pawns and that I wasn’t afraid to lose them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
But many American farmers are still feeling like pawns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
"Regardless of what they were convicted of and what they did, they're still being used as pawns in a dystopian game exchanging bodies for money," David told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
She accused her ex-partner of using the children as "pawns in his game".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
“A castle and a bishop and a couple of pawns, at least until you get the hang of it. Come on. It’ll be something new for us to do.”
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Gaud comes from Ghuwara, a small town in central India, and her mother once pawned her jewellery to buy one of her first cricket kits.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
I gave him one of my horns, and he pawned it the next day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
It was named for Barney Pressman, who in 1923 pawned his wife’s ring, at her encouragement, for $500 to buy the lease of a small store on Seventh Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Migrants pawned their jewelry to pay for passage or brought their treasure to new lands.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024
The terrified mother pawned the cornet immediately and destroyed the pawn ticket.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
She’s hoping to avoid pawning something or paying a bill late.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
I offended an acolyte who caught me pawning off the dessert basket she brought me to a neighbor, and insulted a coworker who’d gifted me holiday champagne by saying, “Don’t you know I don’t drink?”
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
Geoffrey Simmons began pawning his items six years ago "just to fill the freezer".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2023
His family did everything they could think of to catch up: pawning possessions, accumulating vast bank overdraft fees, borrowing money and applying for energy assistance.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
Finally I came upon a nearly deserted shop where, despite being tongue-tied at first, I succeeded in pawning a cup that belonged to my father.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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